Engineering

In this first episode of the Rust Compile time series, Brian Anderson, one of Rust's original authors, shares with you his researches and experiences with Rust compile times, using the TiKV project as a case study.

Benchmarks are hard to get right, and many articles touting benchmarks are actually benchmarketing, showcasing skewed outcomes to sell products. This post introduces some of the motivations for benchmarking and the common tools, and discusses a few things to keep in mind when benchmarking.

As an open-source distributed scalable HTAP database, TiDB uses the Raft Consensus Algorithm in its distributed transactional key-value storage engine, TiKV, to ensure data consistency, auto-failover, and fault tolerance. TiDB has thus far been used by more than 200 companies in their production environments in a wide range of industries, from e-commerce and food delivery, to fintech, media, gaming, and travel.

Every developer has his/her favorite programming language. For the TiKV team members, it's Rust.

The goal of TiKV is to support 100 TB+ of data and it is impossible for one Raft group to make it, we need to use multiple Raft groups, which is called Multi-raft.

TiKV uses the Raft algorithm to implement the strong consistency of data in a distributed environment. This blog introduces the details how Raft is implemented.

This is the third one of three blogs to introduce TiDB internal.

This is the first one of three blogs to introduce TiDB internal.

This is the second one of three blogs to introduce TiDB internal.

This is the speech Siddon Tang gave at the 1st Rust Meetup in Beijing on April 16, 2017.

This is the speech Max Liu gave at Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2016.